Where: Millard County, Utah (38.7° N, 114.0° W: paleocoordinates 10.0° S, 51.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Kinderhookian to Kinderhookian (358.9 - 343.0 Ma)
• The contact with the underlying Pilot Shale has been placed at the base of a two foot bed of pink weathering quartzite or at the base of the first prominent limestone cliff. The contact with the overlying Chainman Shale has been placed at the top of the upper shert-bearing unit of the Joana Limestone
Environment/lithology: gray limestone and black chert
Primary reference: W. J. Gould. 1959. Geology of the Northern Needle Range Millard County, Utah. Brigham Young University Research Studies, Geology Series 6(5):1-47 [T. Olszewski/M. Gibson/L. Fall]more details
PaleoDB collection 13361: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Melissa Gibson on 10.03.2002, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Syringopora surcularia Girty 1899 tabulate coral | |
"Triplophyllites subcrassus" = Amplexizaphrentis, "Triplophyllites paucicinctus" = Amplexizaphrentis
"Triplophyllites subcrassus" = Amplexizaphrentis horn coral
"Triplophyllites paucicinctus" = Amplexizaphrentis horn coral | |
Amplexocarinia sp. Soshkina 1928 horn coral | |
Caninia sp. Michelin 1840 horn coral | |
Caninophyllum incrussatum horn coral | |
"Lithostrotion whitneyi" = Heintzella whitneyi
"Lithostrotion whitneyi" = Heintzella whitneyi White 1875 horn coral | |
Gastropoda | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Spirifer centronatus Shimer 1926 | |
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus Morton 1836 | |
Rhynchopora sp. King 1865 | |
Leiorhynchus sp. Hall 1860 | |
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Composita sp. Brown 1849 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis Norwood and Pratten 1855 | |
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Schuchertella aff. lens2 White 1862 |